Wyatt Cenac Live from Caroline’s NYC

Show Summary

Adam opens the show with Wyatt Cenac and the rest of the gang, talking with an audience member about why he’d be a terrible court stenographer. Alison also talks about seeing her therapist for the first time in a year, and Adam discusses how he messed up the relationship with his own. Later they talk about guns with an off-duty cop sitting in the audience, and the guys play a round of Nerdwalking.

Alison opens the news discussing Aretha Franklin leaving an expensive Obama fundraiser very early on. The guys also talk about the problems with a Blue Man Group school in New York, and pills that make your poop sparkle. Also in the news is a scandal involving a fake head used in ‘Game of Thrones’, and Adam rants about period pieces and Medieval Times. As the show wraps up, the guys discuss a new fine for swearing in Massachusetts, and why Pop Warner Football was worth all the injuries.

adam is very funny and a quick wit but so limited. the live events showcase this. stuck in fake lame rants, stuck in stereotypical thinking. hey it’s straight shooting! unable to collaborate – a constant pointing out that the guest is female, jewish, or black rather than improvising with them on whatever the topic is. he’s becoming more and more fox news, rich guy appealing to the blue collar fan base– LA version of git-er-done schtick.

I have to admit, Adam is really just starting to sound truly racist. It’s to the point where people really just think he’s a racist. It’s one thing to make a lighthearted joke or a little jab, but at some point, this stuff is just pretty mean spirited and uncomfortable.

Have to agree with the above two commenters–Adam’s “off-color” humor is really getting out of hand. The clan joke on the Wendy Williams was embarrassing. And I’m not harping on this in this forum to be a jerk…I’m saying this as a genuinely concerned long-time fan.

jeez!!! lighten up! yes we laugh at it, just like your brother with the big nose or grampas false teeth – we can mek fun of ourselves – quit being so uptight! you think he should curb his thoughts for YOU ? dont listen!!

Looking forward to the end of these live shows. Yeah, I know it’s free, I appreciate that and it’s better than nothing, but the studio ones are so much better. A lot less shouting. Artie Lange had a pretty good live presence though. Alison seems bad and even disruptive live. And while I’m as big a potty humor fan as the next guy, somehow these shows get so much creepier; I don’t know what that is. Making sculptures out of pasty dried talcum powder mixed with ball sweat and moving it around the hotel room? Yeesh

Reading yesterdays comments is interesting. Apparently, expecting the POTUS to uphold the laws of the land which he took an oath to do, makes some retards call you a bigoted xenophobe. Breaking his oath to curry favor along ethnic lines makes him unfit to lead. Pretending that’s not the case makes you a moron.

I think they were more likely commenting towards the type of person who becomes openly disappointed/outraged when somebody passes up an opportunity to publicly rant about illegals for (yet another) 20 minutes during a comedy show.

Adam, many of your audience is packin heat. Here in Oregon it’s easy to legally pack heat. I was legally packin’ when I shook your hand and had a picture with you. I had to ride public transportation to see you, that’s the reason why.

There are risks to Adam’s advice. There was a teacher where I went to high school who dislocated his sholder playing football. It ended up paralyzing his arm. I think it pulled the nerve out of his spine.

Adam says much of what he says to get laughs and while doing so reveals a staggering amount of truth about our society. He stands behind what he says and in this unfortunate PC era in which the majority of us have become slaves of I personally believe it should be applauded. You may not agree with all of what he says but how many people do each of us know that we agree with their view on every subject? Why not just be an old fashioned adult and not look to create all this fake rage about 1 or 2 of his comments you personally don’t enjoy during the 90 minutes of his podcast and just get the hell over it, and if you’re that offended then simply don’t download and move your weak minded sensitive ass down the road. Disagreement is one thing, but trying to silence anyone for spoken words is never the solution.

My previous post was directed toward his recent interview that too many fake media outlets found a way to be offended by and his race laced jokes here and there. Get over it all of you people with the fake outrage. Try graduating high school, you can’t tell on Adam to your teacher like you once would have.

Ill keep warning you Ace, be careful with the racist stuff. You keep pushing it dude and eventually its going to go over a line that you wont be able to get back. Its hacky and stale too. Wyatt obviously was uncomfortable with it at the end and just wanted to get out of there……you’ve worked too hard to lose it all. You are a funny guy but its getting old

I feel like these live shows bring out the worst in Adam. Like with the audience right there in front of him he feels like he can’t relax, and that leads to stuff like all the easy, lame race jokes. I really like Wyatt Cenac and I hope they have him in studio some time, because Adam didn’t really talk to him at all, instead just used him as a jumping off point for the tired black guy jokes that he’s used a million times before. Wyatt was generally a good sport about it (the James Boyd rushing title thing was funny) but you could tell he was a little annoyed with it.

I liked the first 2 live shows but this one fell flat and Adam bombed in front of the audience with the racial humor. I’m not PC and I like some of his racial material, but when he swings and misses, it’s ugly.

Too bad he’s incapable of reeling it in because he doesn’t want to be seen as pussing out or caving in to pressure – a comedian has to be “edgy”. He also sounded drunk, and admitted he was.

How dare you,? HOW DARE YOU?! Criticizing jugglers as show offs. YOU RIDE A VEHICLE THAT IS ONE WHEEL AWAY FROM LEVITATION! I think you are the one who is the real show off. TAKE YOUR ONEICYCLE AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ARSE!

The race stuff is good in moderation………after the 80th joke it starts to get uncomfortable and revealing. You can’t just hide behind the guise of comedy all the time. Make your 1-3 barbs like you do with DAG or Alonzo Bodden and then keep it moving.

To the complainers…..FUCK OFF. ……..Some times in life things don’t work out to your liking. You don’t like a show,move on….You like a show, enjoy!…You listen because you love him, so quit being a bunch of bitches.. He is human and a very funny one at that! Rock on Adam, keep doing what you’re doing.

They mentioned a few times that this was the second show that night and I think that it showed. Adam sounded drunk and it was clear that he wasn’t thinking right. The race stuff can be funny, at a certain point it gets uncomfortable. Clearly, Wyatt was trying to move on from stuff that he didn’t want to talk about and knew wasn’t funny. Quick jabs with race is funny. Haymakers of race jokes is just racism and ruins the joke.

And if hes sticking it to the man by not being politically correct then why did he backpedal like a pussy when he was talking shit about manny paquiao? Stand your fucking ground if you believe in something, dont give us this half assed apology like john and ken.

This has nothing to do with political correctness. Adam might be the funniest man alive right now. I listen to Ace every day. Those who listen every day know his brand of humor. The show wasn’t as funny as it could have been. The critical comments have very little to do with political correctness and more to do with his presentation. You think a bunch of soccer moms and black panthers happened to have stumbled upon this podcast and were offended. Guest Wyatt Cenac’s comedy is closer to hipster than hip-hop and would play Park Slope better than Harlem. I like Wyatt and he played it well. A Tracy Morgan would have played it differently. And on Tracy Morgan, when asked about the comedian’s “anti-gay” performance, Adam correctly said that the audience will decide if it is funny or not. In this case, the audiene, his loyal, cult audience, of which I am a member, has decided. People were offended bc it wasn’t funny.

I agree with a lot of the comments about the racial comments. I think Adam’s issue is he often doesn’t read his guests and keeps pushing things too far. Cenac is on the daily show, clearly left leaning and he clearly doesn’t fit any of the black stereotypes. He did a great job staying cool with the racist comments. The comments themselves I actually thought were pretty funny as they usually are but when the guest obviously isn’t cool with it it’s really awkward and makes for poor entertainment. If it’s DAG who would laugh along and appreciate it it works, but don’t try it with a guy like this it makes you look like an a-hole.